NY Times On Space Pork
NASA’s Greedy Overseers, Editorial, NY Times
“The space agency is struggling to mount a vigorous program of exploration and scientific research within a tight budget. So what has Congress been doing to help it along? Not much, judging from revelations that hordes of greedy senators and representatives have siphoned more than half a billion dollars from NASA’s budget for the 2006 fiscal year to finance pet projects. It is a terrible diversion of money.”